When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

It's often your deepest pain that brings out the best of out of you

I had come to believe that there was something sacred in telling stories and telling them true.

it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end

The fans out in New Zealand are amazing. They're genuinely excited and appreciative that you're playing their country.

Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

Life is all about experiencing the full range of emotions.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.